{"id":18169,"date":"2017-06-14T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:51:37","slug":"the-history-of-blitzmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/14\/the-history-of-blitzmail\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of BlitzMail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.laughable.com\/podcastepisodes\/433279?token=9iii1\">DEN-NYC Conversations<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fetchguy\/status\/874259102209388545\">Jim Matthews<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/share.laughable.com\/podcastepisodes\/433279?token=9iii1\"><p>Ned Kenney (Dartmouth &rsquo;10) interviews Jim Matthews, a software developer and Dartmouth employee from 1987 to 2001 who played a central role in the creation of Blitzmail (aka &ldquo;Blitz&rdquo;). Blitz, an email\/instant messaging hybrid, was literally decades ahead of its time and would become as much a cultural institution at Dartmouth as a technical one. It was eventually replaced by Microsoft software in 2011, but for over 20 years, it was the primary mode of communication for members of the Dartmouth community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I remember most about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BlitzMail\">BlitzMail<\/a> is how fast it was on the slow hardware and even slower modems of the day, even though the messages had to be pulled from the server. Secondly, the user <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/iskm\/iskm3html\/pt4\/ch21\/ch21b.html\">interface<\/a> was very compact and efficient, though somewhat unorthodox with menu bars inside of the windows.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEN-NYC Conversations (via Jim Matthews): Ned Kenney (Dartmouth &rsquo;10) interviews Jim Matthews, a software developer and Dartmouth employee from 1987 to 2001 who played a central role in the creation of Blitzmail (aka &ldquo;Blitz&rdquo;). Blitz, an email\/instant messaging hybrid, was literally decades ahead of its time and would become as much a cultural institution at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,14,235,295,30,1172],"class_list":["post-18169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-email","tag-emailclient","tag-education","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-mailing-lists"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18178,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}